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# Skyrim player mourns loss of his virtual companion
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/skyrim-player-mourns-loss-of-npc/
- Published: 2011-11-22T14:51:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:29:36.000Z
- Description: Rock Paper Shotgun has a funny, heartwarming story of a Skyrim player accidentally killing a member of his party, and then throwing her up a hill and into a coffin, and then burying her after unsuccessfully trying to revive her. The entire thing is great, but here’s the death in question: I returned
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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*[Rock Paper Shotgun](http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/21/skyrim-lydia-death/?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+RockPaperShotgun+%28Rock%2C+Paper%2C+Shotgun%29)* has a funny, heartwarming story of a *Skyrim* player accidentally killing a member of his party, and then throwing her up a hill and into a coffin, and then burying her after unsuccessfully trying to revive her. The entire thing is great, but here’s the death in question:

> I returned to the site of the fight, a very steep mountain slope with a ruin at the top and bottom. The fight had started at the top, but it seemed likely Lydia would be somewhere near the base. Jenassa, in her actually-more-useless-than-Lydia status, couldn’t even figure out a path from the lower ruin to the slope, so left me alone for most of the search. And at this point I realised that I genuinely cared. Which was ridiculous.  
>  
> Well, returning to the scene of a fight where a pointlessly unhelpful companion might have died to find her body was pretty bloody ridiculous. So I guess caring about it, even feeling a chill when I spotted a corpse, running up to it and realising it was a bandit, and then feeling relief – well, I’d already gone far too far down that road to be finding this especially troubling.  
>  
> Mid-search I was attacked by a chancer group of punk-haired Bandits, who didn’t understand the solemnity of the occasion, and only added to the numbers of false corpses that made me gasp. I was gulping, running over, and feeling relief, each time the hope that maybe she was fine. Is that…? No, it’s okay. Is that…?  
>  
> I saw yet another bandit body, went down to double-check, andohmygod.  
>  
> There she was. Dead. At the bottom of the slope. I’d killed her.

To be honest, I had a similar experience in *Fable 3* where I had to either kill my in-game girlfriend or sacrifice an entire village. I killed the girl. I still haven’t gotten over it.

*\-Drew Millard*

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